I was recently contacted and asked if I could give someone a run down of all the training that I do. I put them off. Not because I was terrified that some deep seated secrets would be revealed to the world, but rather because I do a lot of stuff. A bunch of it doesn’t work, some works great. A lot of it is experimentation that I develop when I am bored, or feel like suffering, or happen to be injured, or when I need to find a way to learn a new skill set. This week for example I have done the following in the past three days:
• Weighted mono pull-ups
• Towel hangs
• Iron cross lowers on rings
• Lever statics
• Volume push-ups
• Volume pull-ups
• Heavy snatches
• Row sprints
• Rope climbs
• Overhead squats
• Lots of carny strap training
• Dragons
• Heavy weighted one leg squats [pulled off 32kg for reps]
• Some deadlifting
• A bit of time on the campus board
• Crimp board
• Planche work
• V-sits
• Wall walks, walkovers, and bridges
• A couple hours of loaded flexibility work
• Lots of leg swings
• Foam rolling
• Much yelling
• Hand stand work on rings
• Horizontal one arm rows
• Extreme coffee drinking
I mean that is likely not all of it. There are no set rep schemes some days. I come in, I gauge what I am feeling like, how much sleep I got, how much coffee I plan on drinking and then I play. Some months I will dead-lift every day. Sometimes I do nothing but pull-ups and push-ups with super high volume. I did half of a fran set as a warm up today. It is rather random. In some ways this likely limits my movement forward, I regularly think back to the progress I made when I had really regimented training, but then I am in many ways stronger now. Who knows, maybe I need to be regimented in my training again, maybe I need to set my rep schemes down and periodize everything, I am not sure. However it is hard to balance mixed climbing, ice climbing, straps, back country snowboarding, bouldering, alpine, hiking, along with the rest of the weight lifting… so who knows, maybe this is my brains way of trying to deal with the chaos of my play time.
